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Koji Suzuki was born on May 13, 1957, in Hamamatsu, Japan, and later moved to Tokyo. He graduated from Keio University before beginning his writing career, initially publishing novels in the early 1990s. He achieved worldwide fame with the Ring novels, beginning with the 1991 book Ringu, which spawned a franchise of movies, television series, manga, and video games. The series' blend of horror and psychological suspense earned him the nickname "the Stephen King of Japan." Suzuki continued to write both sequels such as Spiral, Loop, and later standalone novels, receiving awards including the 1996 Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for New Writers and the 2012 Shirley Jackson Award for Edge, as well as the 2021 Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award. He died in Tokyo on May 8, 2026, at age 68.